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Jason V

1 reviews | Active since Jan 2015

11 Jan 2023, 13:11

Vox Telecoms would not recommend to anyone.

I am generally not one to complain, having worked in the ISP industry for several years I do have a level of understanding.

To begin with my initial experience with Vox (not my choice as we were moved from SADV to Vox) was not a pleasant one, starting with my ID Documents being required which were already give to SADV months before which Vox was insisting have to be Police Certified copies or the account would be suspended. I sent through non Police Certified copies and they were accepted.

Since moving across to Vox there has been problem after problem after problem, without any notifications sent out that there is an issue, however I did not log a ticket for any of these as I understand, working for an ISP etc. and generally I will not complain.

I logged a ticket with Vox about a week ago regarding slow Fibre Speeds and packet loss in the evenings which appears to be related to congestion(I understand it's a broadband service that relies on OpenAccess Fibre), when logging this ticket via Email only 16 hours later did I receive a Ticket number, that my ticket has been logged and that it would be attended to as soon as possible. 7 days later, not a single response from Vox and I have told them not to even bother anymore as I have cancelled my services through them. Once again I'm not expecting the ticket to be resolved, just some sort of correspondence that someone is attending to or looking into the issue. My colleague with the same issue went as far as to contact the Call Centre, of which because he does not have a "Vox" router they can't assist any further. Please tell me, what testing is your call centre going to do that is any different from the tests that we can run? Ping, Traceroute, Bandwidth Tests and so forth, if they aren't even able to respond to a simple ticket that was logged with all the relevant information.

Ontop of this, proceeding to cancel my account on the website... you click cancel and then the next option to actually cancel your account is greyed out and unclickable... none the less I was able to get the cancellation working, to date nobody has contacted me regarding my cancellation which is set for 1 March 2023 and was logged on the 6th of January. I really don't feel I should have to pay for an additional months services THAT I AM NOT GOING TO USE when my Fibre is physically unusable, which I require for my Job forcing me to seek out alternative connectivity because you are unable to deliver your services, which Vox is more than happy to bill me for every month from me.

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Replies (5)
Vox Telecom
Vox Telecom's reply11 Jan 2023, 14:38
Official
Good day  Jason vThank you for your enquiry. Kindly note that we have noted the above and have escalated your matter for assistance We will investigate the matter and provide feedback to you soonest.  Please note that we will not reply on HelloPeter, but will communicate to you on our official company communication platforms as per our website. Kind Regards, 

Vox
JV
Jason V's update11 Jan 2023, 19:52
Reviewer Update
Thank you for coming back to me. The response I received was simply confirming when my cancellation date will take affect which was already visible in my dashboard and that I will not be charged a clawback fee which seems pretty irrelevant?

It does not address the issue that I have a physically unusable service that I am still expected to pay another month for nor anything else highlighted above.
Vox Telecom
Vox Telecom's reply11 Jan 2023, 20:58
Official
Good day Jason V, 

Thank you for your message.

We have added it to the escalation logged.

Feedback will be provided soonest.

Kind regards 

Vox 
JV
Jason V's update26 Jan 2023, 15:46
Reviewer Update
So after continuous back and forth, being contacted by a support agent that I held on the phone with for 20 mins to get feedback from his colleague only to be told that they want to run tests on my router, holding another 20 mins for them to tell me that they don't have access to my router(although stated here and in my original ticket that I manage my router myself), holding another 10 mins to be told that my router is faulty(which I can assure is not) to hold another 10 mins for a technician to be dispatched(which would be unnecessary of course due to the congestion and no physical fault), phone by a more senior engineer who I had to re-explain everything to again to come to the same conclusion that I manage my own router(still not looking at my original ticket logged). These agents asked me to test overnight and then forward the results to them, which I did also cc'ing them into my one sided mail chain replying to my ticket each day with no response again of course.

My original ticket was logged on the 3rd of January and my cancellation put through on the 6th and only by my creating this post on HelloPeter on the 11th of January did I get any level of response from your teams which were quick to phone me on the 12th, but failed to follow up, respond, fell back on their promises or even look at the original ticket which is listed as a reference on this HelloPeter post.

Only by the 17th of January did I get a competent agent that contacted me and actually took the initiative to escalate my issue, follow up with me, reply to me and even go as far as to have a Vumatel Agent contact me directly as well. This Vox Agent has been in contact with me ever since unlike the staff before him and unfortunately he had to deal with a very disgruntled customer.

Now I receive a bill for my services that is to the full price for a service that I cannot use whatsoever, that I have been complaining about since the beginning of January and I am expected to pay it? Please have a representative contact me with compensation for this period. They can contact me via my email, I don't want to receive another time wasted phone call.
Vox Telecom
Vox Telecom's reply26 Jan 2023, 17:40
Official
Good day Jason V, 

Thank you for your message.

We have added it to the escalation logged.

Feedback will be provided soonest.

Kind regards 

Vox